Check out these designs for the new artist studios at The Joan Mitchell Center. The Joan Mitchell Center is a forum for artists and a community gathering place to support the artist community in NOLA. Currently housed at 2275 Bayou Road, the new center will feature new construction of a single story building with 8,000 [&hellip

Lakeside Shopping Center representatives announced Thursday that they have begun construction on a new space at the mall that will eventually house The Cheesecake Factory. It will be The Cheesecake Factory’s first Louisiana location and its 169th overall. It will occupy a 9,300-square-foot space at Lakeside and slated to create 300 jobs . Deerfield Beach, [&hellip

International Shipholding Corp., which owns and operates a global fleet of waterborne cargo vessels, announced yesterday that they are relocating their corporate headquarters from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans, where the business was originally founded in 1947. As a public company (ISH), this is a major win for NOLA. The company announced that it would [&hellip

The New Orleans Arena now has a new name: the Smoothie King Center. Tom Benson and his team have reached a 10 year naming rights deal for the 14 year old arena where the Pelicans play their games. The price tag has not been disclosed. Read more from our friends at The Advocate or take [&hellip

Louisiana ArtWorks, the art hub and studio on Howard Avenue financed with public funds, is now under contract for $6.2 million to be sold to the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI), a non-profit hospitality, culinary, and restaurant school. NOCHI is a collaboration between restaurateurs Ti Martin, Dickie Brennan and Delgado Community College, the [&hellip

The Dead Pool focuses on projects, developments, buildings, and infrastructure projects that were proposed but never actually happened for one reason or another. Like many cities, New Orleans is full of them. This series will highlight some of the most spectacular proposals that never came to fruition. First up is the Trump International Hotel and [&hellip

Over four decades ago, a downtown high-rise known as the Rault Center caught on fire, forcing several trapped inside to attempt to jump to safety from 15 floors up. Most died. On November 29, 1972, flames tore through the Rault Center in downtown New Orleans. On the 15th floor was a beauty salon where [&hellip

In 2013, the New Orleans apartment market increased absorption 5.5 percent compared to 2012 and taking 1,290 units off the market according to research provided by Hendricks-Berkadia. With no major multifamily developments coming online to increase inventory, the city’s 5 percent year-end vacancy was the lowest rate in 13 years. The Class B apartment market [&hellip

Wischermann Partners, Inc. and Jayshree Hospitality LLC, owned by Kishore “Mike” Motwani, are co-developing a proposed 21-story, 373-room hotel at the corner of Canal and Tchoupitoulas streets. The property would operate under the Marriot Hotel brand, although if look closely the rendering actually shows a Ramada Inn and a Springhill Suites. The hotel tower would also [&hellip

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Last week, the development team of the proposed Omni Hotel at the Convention Center released the first renderings of the hotel. The $557 million, 1,200 room Omni Hotel will also include 150,000 square feet of ballroom and meeting space and ground-floor retail on an 8.1-acre site at the upriver end of the exhibition hall. There [&hellip...